Ok, ok, I’m late again, but I’ve got a semi-good excuse. Check out the strip and then I’ll deliver an explanation afterward.

Behold the power of WACOM!

If you’ve been checking out EoP: The Webcomic then you’ll undoubtedly note the difference between this strip and the last three. The culprit for this new look? A Wacom Bamboo Fun pen tablet!

For those unfamiliar with comics and comic book art (and computers), a Wacom tablet essentially allows its user to draw directly into programs like Photoshop and Illustrator with the ease of using a pen instead of a difficult to navigate mouse. That’s the idea at least, it does have plenty of other uses as well.

I’ve decided to get a little serious about my cartooning and webcomics so a Wacom seemed like a good tool to have with plenty of possibilities. Plus, I had a late Christmas gift coming from my lady fair which I had a say in, so I opted for a Wacom.

It’s taken me a little while to get used to it, and I still haven’t puzzled it all out yet, but I finalized this strip once I managed to get a a bit of a handle on it. I initially did pencils for Part 4 on paper, took a photo of it and then used the Wacom to “ink” over it. It’s a first effort so expect some improvement, but I think it’s a nice hint at what’s to come as I achieve further mastery of this mysterious Wacom.

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There are 2 Comments to "‘Enemy of Peanuts: The Webcomic’ Part 4—First Strike"

Nice work! That makes a sharper looking image than a scanner– very cool. Do you think you will stick with black and white or does the program offer the ability to put color in as well? I am a fan of both– and all the color in the world doesn’t make up for a bad joke (have you read the funnies lately???)

Right now I’m just honing my use of the Wacom. It came with a painting program, so color is definitely in the mix down the line, but first I want to master the pure illustration and then move on from there.

No newspaper funny reading of late (though I read them everyday in college thanks to a newspaper readership program at MU delivering me as many free papers as I could handle), but I have been checking out loads of webcomics that allow fro way more funny as they don’t suffer from silly censorship.